dinged (dingd)

or adv. [A weak form of danged, pp. of dang2, which is a compromise with damn.] Darned: a mild form of damned. [U. S.] If I ever takes another [thrashing] may I be dinged , and dug up and dinged over again. H. Watter son, quoted in Trans. Amer. Philol. A ., XIV. 47. dinghy, dingey (ding'gi), n. [ ding i , a boat, wherry, pa age-boat, dingā (cerebral d ), a ship, sloop, coasting-ve el.] An East Indian name for a boat varying in size in different localities. The dinghies of Bombay are from 12 to 20 feet long, 5 to 7 feet broad, and about 2 feet deep, with a raking mast, and are navigated by three or four men. The dinghies of Calcutta are small pa age-boats for the poorer cla es, rarely used with a sail; they are not painted, but merely rubbed with nut-oil. The name is also applied to a ship's working-boat, especially to the smallest boat of a man-of-war; and in some parts of the United States it is used for a flat-bottomed boat, which is also called a dory. Also written dhingy, dingy, dingee, and dinky. The Commi ioner was fain to set out sleepy and break fast le towards the shore in the dingy, accompanied by guns, ammunition, false birds, and the paraphernalia of Shore Birds, p. 30. the fatal art. dingily1 (din'ji-li), adv . [ dingily plaided with black. Charlotte Brontë , Villette, xxi. dingily2t (ding'i-li), adv . ( dingy (irreg. B. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 8. dings a thing down; downright. Then Willie lifted up his foot, And dang him down the stair. Sweet Willie and Fair Maisry (Child's Ballads, II. 337). Every acute reader, upon the first sight of a pedantick licence, will be ready with these like words to ding the book a coits distance from him. Milton, Areopagitica, p. 32. To see his poor auld mither's pot Thus dung in staves. Burns , Prayer to the Scotch Representatives. 2. To prove too much for; beat; nonplus. [Scotch.] The stream was strang, the maid was stout, And laith, laith to be dang , But, ere she wan the Lowden banks, Her fair colour was wan. Young Benjie (Child's Ballads, II. 301). But a' your doings to rehearse Wad ding a Lawland tongue, or Erse. 3. To beat; thrash. These be so manifest, so plain, and do confute so dingily the sentence and saying of Floribell. Philpot , Works (ed. Parker Soc.), p. 370. dingine (din'ji-nes), n. The quality of being dingy or tarnished; a shabby or soiled appear ance.